Every few years Designer Raf Simons is leaving Calvin Klein
Every few years Designer Raf Simons is leaving Calvin Klein

This Time it should be longer, really. After Raf Simons had to leave after only three years in his position as Creative Director at Dior’s 2015, he wrote in the year of the Mega Deal with Calvin Klein. A bombastic salary of $ 18 million in the year, responsibility not only for the women’s line, but for everything that had to do with this house, which stands for American fashion as only Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, with product – the scents, the Jeans, the underwear, the men’s fashion. The title in the job title fixed America: the Creative Chairman of the Executive Board. The task for the Belgians should be more than a commitment, so real-time for more than a few seasons, showed to be more consistent moving. Also his eponymous brand, he moved from Antwerp to New York. He bought a dog.

Jennifer Wiebking

editor in the Department “life,” the Frankfurt General Sunday newspaper.

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Well possible, that Raf Simons will feel in New York now at home, the working relationship with Calvin Klein, nevertheless, history, even before he came right to write its own history. Very briefly, before the fashion people, open the door in the Christmas holidays, early Friday evening, New York time, announced to the house the resignation of Raf Simons. The views from where it for the Kahn of a fashion house should go in the future, were too different.

fur slipper, sock boots and down jackets

On the one hand, there’s Raf Simons, 1968 in Flanders-born Designer, with the fine sense of Beautiful pieces on the runways for Look stunning provided that it’s message truly never lacked. You saw it early in his work for Jil Sander, he was the minimalism detained the house in the turn of the Millennium years in the future. At Dior, he continued to the Era of John Galliano to the roots of the brand and helped her to return to herself. Also his designs for Calvin Klein, it was lacking in America under the impression of Donald Trump truly never to Embassy. The Wild West, the settlers of that time and the migrants culture that shape the country until today, were his subjects. And of course, the American pop culture, without the fashion, as it is today would not be possible. The women’s line was a completely new Labels. 205W39NYC it was called, the address of the corporate headquarters. No one is to say that Raf Simons had not arrived in New York.